Month: March 2019

The exhibition will be on display at the Youngblood Art Studio Gallery in Plains, Virginia, April 4 through May 31, 2019. It will be open to the public Saturdays from 12:00 – 4:00 or by appointment. Work shown will include the pieces published here at Empty Mirror, along with many others. The exhibition opens on…

A series of collages inspired by great artists of the past such as Kurt Schwitters. Bits and pieces of newspaper, calendar pages, and other discarded ephemera take on new life by being combined, juxtaposed and superimposed; through playful improvisation and experimentation, they form mysterious alliances proving that even the (seemingly) worthless can have value and…

On July 30, 1997, William Burroughs wrote: Reading Titanic by Charles Pellegrino. Page 18. What is an experience if it is not shared? Did it even happen? What he wrote later that day is more well-known, his last written words, which seem at a glance so out of character for a writer whose work can…

It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like that. I know not what it means. In truth, yes, I know it. —Oscar Wilde, Salomé When Oscar Wilde wrote Salomé in 1891, English law banned play performances involving biblical characters. Even without such forbidden material, the spectacle of a young girl…

POET by Clark Coolidge / Pressed Wafer Press / 2018 Last spring I had the privilege of hearing Clark Coolidge read from his manuscript POET in San Francisco at Bird and Beckett to a capacity crowd. I was anticipating the usual wild ride. Beautifully and thickly laden improvised text special to Coolidge and his language.…

It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like that. I know not what it means. In truth, yes, I know it. —Oscar Wilde, Salomé When Oscar Wilde wrote Salomé in 1891, English law banned play performances involving biblical characters. Even without such forbidden material, the spectacle of a young girl…

ten mile / credit: deEducation Don’t ask me to know your trees or the green statues of famous men. Don’t ask me to assume polite silence before gray old churches or to join in your search for the meaning of proud dolmenic ruins. In me, you find a heretic from birth. Born too soon, set…

The following passage is an excerpt from World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller. The events below took place in 1947, during Ginsberg’s first trip to a foreign country. Leaving America In late July, Allen asked Neal to accompany him to Texas. He’d planned this much earlier, even asking Huncke to build them a bed in…

photo by Jose Lara / CC BY-SA 2.0In his essay on Robbe-Grillet, “Objective Literature: Alain Robbe-Grillet,” Roland Barthes says of objectivism in practice that objects exist “without heredity, without associations, and without references, an object rigorously confined to the order of its components and refusing with all the stubbornness of its thereness to involve the…

Empty Mirror contributor Buku Sarkar‘s photographs will be featured in an exhibition at the ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, NYC. The show runs from March 21, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. until April 28, 2018 at 6 p.m. The opening reception takes place on March 21, from 6:30-8:30pm. IT IS A MIRACLE THAT WE ARE STANDING HERE…